Quotes About Order

I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City. Hm! said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily? I really do not know replied the man, with a deep sigh. Perhaps the women are made of castiron.

The generals commanded the colonels and the colonels commanded the majors and the majors commanded the captains and the captains commanded the private, who marched with an air of proud importance because it required so many officers to give him his orders.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

Duygular kesin bir düzene girmekten kaç?n?rlar. Onun yerine küçük parçalar halinde feza boÅŸluÄŸunda serbest dolan?rlar. Ay?r?c? özellikleri de istikrars?zl?kt?r.

We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness.

For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.